[Stefan Blom[_3_]]

I'm glad I could help!

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"mlhill" wrote in message ...

you're *awesome* . . worked perfectly . . i had no idea to do field
delimiters inside other delimiters . . i was just putting in the
brackets manually .

thank you so much!

'Stefan Blom[_3_ Wrote:
;493070']You're very close. This should work:

{ = { DATE \@ "YYYY" } - 1 }

Note that you have to insert each pair of field delimiter by pressing
Ctrl+F9.
Also,
be sure to include spaces as suggested by the example above.

To update fields in the selection, press F9. To show/hide field all
codes, press
Alt+F9.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP




"mlhill" wrote in message ...


have tried making this happen for days, so please help:

what i want is to create a field in MS Word 2010 that will
automatically
populate with the current year minus one . . so it would show 2011 this
year, 2012 when it's 2013, etc. . .

my best current guess is some kind of function like ={DATE \@ "yyyy"}-1
but just can't get it to happen . .

help please!




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mlhill




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mlhill